Technology news service CNET News.com reported late on Tuesday that the software giant would offer $500,000 for information leading to the arrest of the writers of two of the costliest computer bug outbreaks to hit the Internet.

Computer experts contacted by Reuters across Europe confirmed a cash reward was on the cards.

The bugs wreaked havoc across the world in August and September, attacking computers that run on Microsoft Windows operating systems.

A Microsoft spokeswoman in London said only that a press conference would be held on Wednesday in Washington at 10 a.m. EST where a Microsoft legal counsel and investigators from the FBI, U.S. Secret Service and Interpol would make a statement
OK....now I KNOW I wandered into a black hole and came out in a parallel universe or alternate reality.....

From Reuters News Service....